Tree

While playing in a tournament in 1982, Bernhard Langer found himself in a quandary on the seventeenth hole. He hit a 9-iron for his second shot and pulled it to the left. The ball disappeared into a giant oak tree near the green - and did not come down. Eventually, Langer found it lying in a small indentation on a giant branch fifteen feet above the ground. Langer had two options. The first was taking a penalty shot. Langer opted for the second:
"I hit the ball from up in the tree onto the green," he later recalled, "and the crowd went absolutely crazy! The TV cameras had everything on tape and hours later the picture of me hitting the ball out of the tree went around the world."

Joe, Jr?

Shortly after the appearance of her Book of the Penis, Maggie Paley was asked why so many men have nicknames for their genitals. Her reply? "Would you want to be bossed around by someone you don't even know?"

A friend was very upset at having to get rid of his cat. Dorothy Parker suggested, "Have you tried curiosity?"

In the late 1920s, talkies took Hollywood by storm. So fast was the transformation that during the production of Richard Wallace's The Shopworn Angel (in 1928), costars Gary Cooper and Nancy Carroll were suddenly informed that the producers planned to convert the silent film into a talkie. "I studied my script containing this new thing called dialogue," Cooper recalled many years later, "until I was letter perfect." The dialogue came after fifty-nine minutes and forty-five seconds of silence, in the hour-long film's final wedding scene:
Cooper: "I do."
Carroll: "I do."
"Based on those four words," Cooper later recalled, "the picture was released as a talkie!"

Abstruse

One day in 1807, while his wife was lying sick upstairs, the famed mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss became engrossed in an abstruse theoretical problem. When the doctor told him that his wife was dying, Gauss waved him away. "Tell her," he ordered without looking up, "to wait a minute until I've finished."